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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1931-09-11

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1931-09-11, page 01

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
VOL. XV—No. 37
COLUMBUS, OHIO, SEPTEMBER ii 1931
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
BytheWay
By David Schwartz
The telegraph companies have very nobly come to the aid of the Jew who wishes to send a New Year greeting to his friend. Today, all the arduous labor of comiiosing one of these messages of greeting may be avoided by simply asking the wire coni|>any to send message No. 8, which ixissibly reads: "May you be inscribed for a very happy new year and may your children become champion ball players." Ot maybe you ask for No. 10 and yet get a message which reads: 'May the new year bring you prosperity, popularity, punch and pep, but not por¬ ous plasters."
Which is all very good. But these messages, very appropriate for your in¬ timate circle, can scarcely fill the bill, if you want to send a New Year greeting to Home great celebrities. You can't be quite so intimate with them, you've got to have something, don't you know, more dignified.
To supply that need, we have formu¬ lated a number of messages suitable to dispatch to these celebrities; ' To Dr. Chaim Weizmann, London, England. i i
A happy New Year and a fast Yom Kippur. Cheer up I Have you thought of columning? Look at Cal Coolidge.
To Dr: Nahum Sokolow,
President, World Zionist Organization,
London.
A happy New Year and a fast Yom Kippur. You arc credited with being not only a great Jewish statesman but a ' great humorist. Could you arrange to tell a real corking one so (hat the Arab demagogues could split their kishkes?
A NEW YEAR'S GREETING
The .Union of American Hebrew Con¬ gregations wishes its constituents scat¬ tered throughout the United States and Canada a year pf contentment and hap¬ piness.
For the House of Isciel the Union prays for a year of united and success¬ ful effort in behalf of the realization of our sacred mission.
For the world at large Israel prays for a speedy restoration of economic sta¬ bility and international good-will.'
May the world's longing for universal peace find a full measure of realization in the year before us.
¦—Ludwig Vogclstein.
Precarious Position of Mexican Jewry May Lead to Pogroms; Targets of Dis¬ crimination Because of Business Success
Local B'nai BVith Will Meet
Monday Evening at East
Broad St. Temple
Most Interesting Musical Program —Refreshments and Smokes—For Members Only
To Adolpf Hitler, "
Fascist and Anti-Semite Leader,
Berlin, Germany.
Yeah? Thanks I Same to you and many of them. If you decide to jump, the fifttientli floor is better than the tenth.
To DrJ Albert Einstein, Berlin, Germany.
A happy, New Year and a relatively fast Yom Kippur. Could you as the world's greatest authority on time do something about this overtime and time and a half business? Remember ine to the relatives.
Bernard Postal,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
New York. .
Happy New Year. More than a year ago you got a postal—not fromthr mails. Females. Hope you get aiiT" this year. There Is nothing spondence.
To Herbert Hoover, The White, House, Washington, D. C.
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According to Robert L. Mellman, vice- president and general chairman of the B'nai B'rith program committee, all ar¬ rangements have been completed for a most interesting. meeting, Monday eve¬ ning, September 14th, when Zion Lodge will open its fall season. The meeting will be; open to B'nai B'rith members only, and on the evening's program there will be reports of the delegates to the last District No, 2 Convention held at West Baden, Ind. The musical program will consist of Jewish Folk Songs and Classical numbers to be presented by the following well known local artists: Sara Parish, violinist; Sylvia Phillipson, pian- ; and Mina Volk, vocalist. Refresh¬ ments and smokes will also be on the eve¬ ning's menu of entertainment.
A discussion of JFall activities will also take place ih which every member of Zion Lodge will be asked to participate, as a most comprehensive program in the history of Zioit - Lodge is now being planned.
..Every niember is again being notified at this time that the new meeting place, beginning Monday evening, the Ea:il Broad Streel. Temple, where, according lo the officers^, of the Order, the best facilities, for the Lodge's meeting are to be had. Remember—'Next Monday ev uinfi. at 3 o'clock at the East Broad Street Temple, l-Hoi East Broad Street.
The possibility that a pc^rom may be the climax of the sorely aggravated Jewish situation in Mexico is suggested by Miss Anita Brenner, American cor¬ respondent, writing in the current issue of the Nation. In a di.'spatch sent from Mexico City, Miss Brenner declares that the twenty thousand Jews who have settled in Mexico since 1924, upon the invitation of General Plutarco Ellas Calles, then president-elect, following the passage of the American immigra¬ tion laws, are now the targets of severe discrimination and active and open agi¬ tation due to jealousy over their busi¬ ness success. Incited by foreign rivals, German, I-'rcnch and Spanish,, irritated by the success of the Jewish immigrants, virulent Mexican anti-Jewish; Leagues have been organized whose function it is to instigate a boycott against the Jews, declares Miss Brenner.
President Ortiz Rubio himself has been drawn into this agitation and was present at an outstanding anti-Jewish meeting where he was asked "to sink the national flag through tbe heart of Israel."
PROMINENT JEWISH
FIGURE PASSES
AT 67
To Morris Waldman and Bernard G.
Richards, Secretaries, respectively, Ainerican Jevyish, Committee and Amer..
can Jewish Congress.
A happy New Year arid a fast Yom Kippur. Hope business willbe slow in your line. No anti-Semitic speeches, laws, discriminations to protest against. Not altogether stop, you understand. A little discrimination is as good as pinochle to get excited about,
To Al Jolson,
New York and Hollywood.
Happy New Year, sonny boy. You sure put it over in "Mammy" arein.
To Eddie Cantor, New York,
A whoopee New Year and a fast Yom Kippur. Bye-bye, see you in the moving pictures.
To Lieutenant Isidore Bachman,
With the Nautilus—Somewhere around
the Pole.
A happy New Year, but you better not fa.n Yom Kippnr. You might fast about a minute as the days are pretty long around the pole. Six months or soinc- thing like that.
By the way, a friend of mine.r-a koshe, butcher, but he's a regular fellow, Isidore —asks me to write you to say, a. good word for him if there is any opening in his line at the pole. He thought maybe a Jewish butcher with a sideline of Es¬ kimo pies might go good. Sure, he's a Pole,
To Congressman Sol Bloom,
Chairman, Washington Bicentennial
Committee,. Washington, D. C.
A chorry happy New Year. You sure are making the old cherry tree bloom Sol.
To Benjamin Winter,
President, Haym Salomon Monument
Committee, New York.
A monumentally successful New Year to you, Mr. Winter.
To Lewis Brown, MacMillan's, New York,
You've written a history of the Jews and now a history of the church. I have some good material on the Litvaks if you care to write a book. Happy New Year, Lew.
To Leon Trotzky, Somewhere in Turkey.
Happy New Year, Lelbel. Hope yon and Joe Stalin get together. After all, hoth of you boys are well read and have much in common. Could you send us a little turkey from Constantinople for ¦ Thanksgiving? Please rush her.
To Hey wood Broun, World Telegram.
It seems to me that yours and Britt's exnose ousiht to help the job hunting children of Mose Shanil' Toval' (Continued on page 4)
Elected Head of Mid-Western
Debating League of Jewish
Community Centers
At a meeting held at the Bureau of, Jewish Education Monday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio, Miss Rose Sugarman, director of the H?rmiiie Schonthaj Cen¬ ter of this city, was elected president of the Mid-Western Debating League of Jewish Community Centers. Mrs, Gary Cohn of Oniaha was elected first vice- president; Mr. Benjamin Schwartz of Cincinnati, second vice-president; and Mr. Lazer Grossman of St. Louis, secrer tary and treasurer. Miss Anita Gutman, recent graduate of -the School of Jour¬ nalism, Ohio State Univer.<;ity, acted as secretary pro tern.
The Community Centers and Y. M. H. A.'s of the following cities arc now niem¬ bcrs of the League: Section A:—Colum-, bus, Cincinnati, Detroit and Milwaukee, which was elected a niember at this meeting. Section B:—Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Indianapolis. The winner of the final debate of Section A is. scheduled to meet the winner bf Sec¬ tion B. A beautiful stiver cup, known as the Louis P. Aloe Trophy, is awarded to' the wiiiner' for possession during the year of its victory..
Matters of vital importance were dis¬ cussed at the meeting and significant changes made in the Constitution and By- Laws. Subjects were discussed and de^ cided upon for the comingf debates, the first of which is scheduled between Mil¬ waukee and Columbiis, at Cohimbus, oil November 15th.
Each organization is to.have a team of two contestants under 25 years of age, who are members of the organisa¬ tion. Three judges are to be appointed to decide the winner.
Mr. Samuel D. Luchs, attorney, asso¬ ciated with Schanfarber and Schanfarber, has been appointed coach of the Schon¬ thal Center team.
RABBI WERNErS SERMONS
Rabbi Werne's sermons and lectures for Sabbath Tshuvah-—
Saturday. Sept. i9th at 10 :.10 A. M., the rabbi's sermon to the Congregation Asfudath Achim will be on: "The New Mode for the Ancient Spirit."
Before the Junior Congregation at 10 A. M,, his subject, will be, "Looking Backward."
At 3 P., M., the rabbi will deliver be¬ fore the members of Chevrah-Sliass a pilpulic sermon on a profound Halachic subject ¦pertaining' to-the-High Holidays season.
Superior Business Ability
Miss Brenner attributes the campaign against the Jews to the superior business ability of the Jews who were quick to see the need pf making goods available cheaply to the Mexican population, the majority of which is poor and unable to pay cash.
Two decisive factors in the success of the Jews, explains Miss Brenner, "are the two radical innovations which have revolutionized the dry goods business- small; profits bn large sales and the in¬ troduction of a retail credit system and installinent plan. The markets have been transformed into open air department stores, prices have gone way down, and the number "of buyers has gone way up, Furtiiermore, some of the old customers of the large stores have shifted their patronage to the markets and to install¬ ment-plan peddlers.
"Obviously," continues Miss Brenner, "the. department stores, and the shoe and hat stores, accustomed to the old system of buying do not like it. Neither do the shoe factories and. the tailor shops, which have to compete with the Jews' cheaper products. It is true that several of the large importers sell con¬ siderable amounts wholesale to. Jewish retailers, but they cannot be otherwise than irritated when the Jews sell this merchandise for much less than the re¬ tail departments of these importers. As a rule, however, the class of merchandise handled by Jews is below the quality of the class offered by department stores; but the rub'lies in the fact that far more people,in Mexico will buy. cheaper goods, because few can afford better." Crisis Aids Nationalism The depression, the drop in silver, the expulsion of thousands of Mexicans from the United States, American tariff laws, unemployment; the agrarian prob 1cm, the labor problem,, the collapse ol oil and mining and the misery of the ma¬ jority of the population, created in Mex¬ ico a desperate, nationalism of which the principal target was the Jews, declares Miss Brenner.
"Brave but inadequate remedies de¬ veloped," asserts Miss Brenner, "the pushing of roadbuilding, the soothing of agrarians, the encouragement of tourist travel; the Chambers of Commerce cam¬ paigned for the slogan 'Consume Na¬ tional Products.' The irritated French, Spanish and German shoemen, liatmeu, dry goods, fclothing and hardware mer¬ chants dovetailed this praiseworthy movement into another, labelled, *Buy from Mexicans — Boycott the Jews.' Tliey began by organizing numerous Li(jas,—s\\ch as the League of Shoemak¬ ers and Tanners, the League of Mexican Bazaars, the League of Small Merchants Adhering to the National Revolutionary Party,—the membership of which is made up chiefly of employees of the lar-jer enterprises, the owners of .smaller enterprises and a minority of Mexican peddlers and small business men, who followed the Jewish example of taking novel wares into the streets and niarkcts, biit who, with less business experience and much competition, were not as .suc¬ cessful as they had hoped. Some of these Ligas,—for example, that of the shoe¬ makers,—are enormous numerically ^ oth¬ ers have no membership beyond,an or¬ ganizer and his committee of agitators. Propaganda Everywhere "Propaganda in the form of 'mani¬ festos', placards, . pamphlets and ^ megn- phonemeh appeared in the markets and streets. The press, especially the Na- cional Revohicionario, oiificial organ oi the official National Revolutionary Party, gave ear to these clamors. The Jews were accused: (I) of havhig en¬ tered Mexico under false pretenses,— promising to work the soil and then en¬ gaging in other occupations; (2) of 'disloyal' commerce, selling below cost, wholesale smuggling, stealing and. fraud¬ ulent bankruptcies; (!l) of exploiting Mexican labor, even of torturing Mex¬ ican labor—one Jew was said to hang his girl clerk up by the thumbs—of not hiring Mexican labor, or cheating their customers, of not paying taxes, of snatching? bread out of Mexican mouths; (4) of living in poverty, of getting rich and sending their money to Palestine; (.')> of sinister designs on the future welfare of the nation. The government was petitioned: (1) to expel ill the Jews; (2) to cancel all Mexican citizen¬ ships extended to Jews; (3) to force thcin alt to become farmers; (4) to can¬ cel Jewish peddlers' licenses and expel Jews from the markets; (5) to restrict Jewish immigration.
"Political sponsorship of the anti- Deputy Angel (angel) Ladron UthicE) de Guevara, exrgeneral, representative from the-Federal District in the Na¬ tional Chamber of Deputies, prominent
... tlie National Revolutionary Party and said to be 'close to Calles'. Proniptly the manifestos, pamphlets, and threats multiplied; a violently anti-Jewish sheet •called La Vos del Comtf^cio was dis¬ tributed, along with the other literature, from the offices of the Federal District Deputation in the National Revolution ary Party Headquarters. And letters on National Revolutionary Party station cry,. signed Ladron de Guevara, asking how much the Jews would pay to stop the campaign, were received by several local Jews with presumably likely bank accounts. Tbe letters^ were not an¬ swered. ' ^'
"Then immigration authorities at Vera Cruz began to get nasty to Jews; Jewish peddlers' licenses were cancelled, and all Jews, Mexican citizenship not¬ withstanding, were expelled from the big dry goods and clothing market La Lagunilla, under rulings stated to be for the purpose of clearing the markets for home-coming Mexicans expelled from the United States, and of enforc¬ ing market regulations which provided that no merchant with more than three hundred pesos (under $loO) worth of goods be .alllowed to deal there. All Jews were said to have violated this reg¬ ulation. No Mexican or non-Jewish foreign violators were discovered.
To celebrate the exodus, a mass meet¬ ing was held by the anti-Jewish Lifjas, anti-Jewish placards decorated the locale, anti-foreign and anti-Jewish speeche^' were made. Th& president, who at¬ tended, was oratorically asked to 'sink the national flag through the heart of Israel'. Deputy Ladron de Gueyara re¬ ceived a gold medal from one of tbese Lujas, 'for his patriotic work in initiat¬ ing the nationalistic campaign'. ' The. medal was pinned on him by amiable President Ortiz Rubio himself, vvho ap¬ parently was present under the impres¬ sion that the meeting was 'pro-Na¬ tional Commerce', and who doubtless didn't see or hear anything naughty, be¬ cause, in answer to an inquiry from this correspondent, he telegraphed that there was no anti-foreign campaign in Mex¬ ico. ^ ¦
"Interviewed," continues Miss Bren¬ ner, "the talkative Deputy stated to this correspondent and to a representative of thii Nev;r York Evening Post, that his campaign was directed 'against all the children of Israel*. Asked whether he thought they were all bad, he answered, either tactless or because he doesn't know a Jew. when he sees one, that he thought they mostly Were. Asked what precisely he expected to do to-them, he, said, 'Send them all out of the country. I've already had the pleasure of personally expelling them from' the markets'. Asked how he was going to accomplish his ob- ject, -he said the president would sign decrees of expulsion for them all. Asked what he wdiild do if the president did not, he said, 'I'll apply direct action; after all, I'm a Deputy and can't be thrown in jail'. Asked who his allies in this campaign were, he said, 'the Na¬ tional government, the Federal District Government, and the National Revolu¬ tionary Party.' He also named several large department stores. Asked how long It would take to expel the Jews, he said, 'Within sixty days, Mexico will be clear of them.'
Parade the Climax "His activity, stretching over a period of several months, reached a climax June.l with tbe organization of a mon¬ ster parade, int^;;ided to show the gov¬ ernment liow' much Mexicans hate Jews. The Jewish zone prepared itself for a pogrom. Anonymous letters threaten¬ ing forcible expulsion and 'suppression' were received by some; and the memory of blackmail attempted by an industrious ex-general named Viguri V, upon others, plus multiplied and more violent pla¬ cards, megaphone men offering 'a nickel for every blow at a Jew', and a new and very wild issue of La Voa del Comcrcio headlined 'Jew—On your Way', por¬ tended a near and dreadful fate td the excited immigrants, many of whom have experienced persecution on the Euro¬ pean plan.
"The president was aske<l to decree the Day of Commerce,—invented for the parade,—a national holiday. University students, discovering a receipt for a thousand pesos given by a prominent dry goods and clothing firm to one of the signers of anti-Jewish placards, pro¬ tested. The Jews protested. One or two diplomats tactfully regretted. Queried for coniinent. General Calles did not reply. However, the holiday was not decreed, but permission was given for the parade, aild an imposing number of. gendarmes turned out with fixed bayonets to keep it peaceful. Nothing .happened. Twenty thousand, it has lieen calculated, over- ailed 'business men' marched down the main boulevard and through the heart of the city, carrying signs in most of which the word Jew had been hastily and vis¬ ibly exchanged for 'bad merchant', 'per¬ nicious stranger', 'invader', and, inno¬ cently, 'Israelite'.
Opposed to Campaign "Delegations which petitioned Mexico's cultured, amused Foreign Minister, Senor Genaro Estrada, to cancel the citizenship of Jews, were told that the citizenships were legally issued and would not be cancelled, and were _ in¬ formed that delegations with petitions like theirs ought to know that they were being used as tools by other foreigners. Then the able secretary of the interior. Senor Carlos Riva Palacio, interviewed by this correspondent, declared that im¬ migrants engaging in other occupations tlian those described upon, entry were violating no law, and would not be ex- Iielted unless they violate one. He de¬ clared, furthermore, that the government did not endorse the anti-Jewish cam- piiign and that the Deputy engaged in (Continued on page 4)
Sisterhoods to Launch
$75,000 Campaign ior the
Union Museum
N. F. T, S. WiU Open Drive to
Convert Old Library Bldg.
Into Home for Judaica
DR. LOUIS KAHN
The Kahn,
death last Sunday of Dr. Louis age i'u, prominent local physician and surgeon in Columbus since 1899, removed from our midst an outstanding Jew and citizen. His fine personality, beautiful character, and charitable spirit had endeared him to all with whom he canie in contact.
Dr. Kahn's great interest in B'nai B'rith work fbr many years entitled him to tlie rank of one of the most beloved members of Zion Lodge. In his death, therefore, wc can truthfully say, "There iwsses from this earth a real gentleman of the old school."
Dr. Kiahn passed aviray at Mt. Carmel Hospital twelve, days after he had un¬ dergone a niajor operation, Funeral serv¬ ices took place at the Schoedinger Chapel Tuesday at 4:30 p. m., with Rabbi Jacob Tarshish officiating., Burialwas made at Green Lawn Cemetery,.
Dr; Kahn, who was a native of Co¬ lumbus, received special recognition for bis work during the 1913 flood. He wa.s then serving as a city health officer, a position he held for 12 years.
He was graduated from Starling Medi¬ cal College and took post-graduate work in Vienna and Berlin. Dr. Kahn served as professor of anatomy at Starling, Col¬ lege for 10 years. He also served as physician for the- Ohio State Blind School.
He was a member of the .Columbus Lodge of Masons, Scottish Rite, Knights of Pythias, Elks, B'nai B'rith, Temple Israel, Winding Hollow Club, American Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Association, Cohimbus Academy of Medi¬ cine and the General Practitioners' Medi¬ cal Society.
His wife, Mrs. Tillie S. Kahn; two daughters, Mrs. Celia Kahn Rosenthal, 1312 East Broad Street, and Mrs. L. H. Fleischer, 1800 Bryden Road; tbret grandchildren; a brother, Henry Kahn of. Okmulgee, Okla., and two sisters, Mrs, S. Leveeti bf Boulder, Colo., and Mrs, S. Cliilds of Chicago, IU., survive.
National Council, Jewish Women, Warns Rural Young Against City Unemploytnent
Advises Jewish Families on Farms
Of Lack of Employment
Opportunities
NEW YORK CITY—A warning has been issued to Jewish farmers' families and to families in the rural districts, by the National Council of Jewish Women, not to permit their young to seek em¬ ployment opportunities in the cities at the present time.
This warning has been sent broadcast to several thousand farm and rural Jew¬ ish families, through the Department of Farm and Rural Work of the National Council of Jewish Women, by the na¬ tional chairman, Mrs. Abraham H. Arons, and the department''6 director, Lillie R. Eckhouse.
An appeal is addressed to the parents to have their children remain in the rural schools to continue their e<Iucation and to save thehi the Wtter disillusion¬ ment aud discouragement that follow failure to secure a position in the cities after repeated efforts. The continued severity of the unemployment crisis makes it necessary for the rural com¬ munities to do everything in their power, stated the olTicers of the National Coun¬ cil of Jewish Wonien, to prevent the concentration of more unemployed in the cities.
The National Council pf Jewish Women is continuing its close coopera¬ tion with the rural public schools as well as providing educational courses for the rural families. .It is also meeting the social service; needs of these families as they are ascertained by its rural field representatives.
MRS. J. WALTER FRIEBERG ASKS SUPPORT OF ALL HEADS
CINCINNATI—In September the Na¬ tional Federation of Temple Sisterhoods will enter uiion a new and significant un¬ dertaking with the opening of an mtcn- sivc campaign to raise $75,000 to trans¬ form the former Hebrew Union College Library into a Museum.
This project, which will be the main . Sisterhood project for 1931-32, was pre¬ sented for official action at the San Francisco Convention in 1929, At that time,and at the Philadelphia Convention last January the Assembly voted that the Sisterhoods, should have the privilege of converting the Library into a Mu¬ seum to house the very rare collection already gathered through the efforts of Dr. Adolph S. Oko, Curator of the Mu¬ seum and librarian of the Hebrew Union College.
For several reasons it is believed that the time is now ripe for the Sisterhoods to begin their campaign. It is a well- known fact that idle buildings deteriorate rapidly and the opening of the New He¬ brew Union College Library leaves the old Library idle. Secondly, building ma¬ terial is cheaper now than it has been for some time. And most important of all, it is absolutely necessary to provide ade¬ quate facilities to house and display this invaluable collection of Judaica, art ob¬ jects, i>aiiitings and museum pieces which up to now has been stored away because display space was lacking.
Hence the National Committee on Union Museum, of which Mrs. J. Wal¬ ter iTreiberg of Cincinnati is Chairman, is urging every State Federation and every local Sistei-hood in the organization to make plans for this project during the summer, to emphasize the campaign during the coming Sisterhood season, to reserve the month of October to intro¬ duce this subject to its members a"nd to devote the program of that month in its interest.
Mrs. Freiberg Voices Appeal In a letter to Sisterhood Presidents, Mrs. Freiberg write:
"Have you ever come into a inuseum .and admired a beautiful painting and ^ secretly envied the artist? Unfortunately not all of us are blessed with this creative ability. Everyone of-us, hovyever^'has ,it within her power to btlp create a fitting place to display the invaluable collection of Jewish Art Objects of all kinds and,, types which form the Union Museum.
"The efforts of the N. F. T. S. to convert th^ former H. U. C. Library into a museum are unique, both in purposf^ and approach. Ordinarily a campaign is conducted to secure museum pieces. In this case, quite the opposite is true. We are already in possession of a collection of, rare interest. It is second to none. It is our object to create a suitable house, tc display these marvelous works. From the viewpoint of artistic appreciation-:- cultural interest—and education—^the completion of such a museum willcon- jtribnte in tremendous measure, to the Iculturallifc of America, and particularly to the Jewish cultural life.
"The Metropolitan Museupi of Art in New York City is conceded the most out¬ standing museum of its kind in this country. Without the slightest exagge¬ ration the same will be said of the Union Museum in Cincinnati when its excellent collection will have been properly dis* played." .
The Union Museum was established in 1913 by the National'Federal ion of Tem¬ ple Sisterhoods. Begun by gifts from individuals, it has been increased grad¬ ually by purchase. In 1921 considerable material of historic and artistic value was added.
Collection Valuable Among the interesting, collections com¬ prising the Museum is the collection of coins and medals of the well-known nu¬ mismatist, Joseph Hamburger, of Frank- fort-on-the-Main, and the Israel Solo¬ mon's Collection of prints. ,
nl 1920 Dr. Koko acquired the famous Collection of S. Kirschstein and Heinrich Frauberger which he purchased iiiBcrlini The great value of this Collection is due not alone to the uniqueness of a large number of objects, but rather to" the fae* that the Collection itself is unique; it is truly a museum of Jewish iiiitii|uities and art. It represents the en¬ tire cultural development of the Jews from about the Ifith century to the pres¬ ent day almost without a gap. It also has a considerable number of objects dat¬ ing from the early Middle Ages.
It contains not fewer than G,174 articles of artistic and historic value including Jewish ceremonial objects of various countries and periods, Torah ornaments in silver and gold, curtains of the Ark, wimpeln (about 700 in number) and other similar objects. This Collection more than any other has won for the Union Museum recognition as the fore¬ most Museum of Jewish Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects and Historical Momi- nients in the world. j
The Museum also provides opportunity for intensive study of the history of the Megillah (of which there are more than 140), the Ketulnb and the Menorah.
There are ' Oiaqukkah and Sabbath lamps in every form and variation, nearly 100 spice boxes in artistic and interesting filagree work, illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, as well as an extensive and valuable collection of documents.au- toffraphs and broadsides.
There is an almost complete assemblage of the materials.telling of the activities and accomplishments of the Jews as artists and musicians, including speci¬ mens of the work of practically all Jew¬ ish graphic artists, No less complete is the collection of portraits of Jewish ce¬ lebrities, miniatures and oil panitings. (Continued on page 4)

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
VOL. XV—No. 37
COLUMBUS, OHIO, SEPTEMBER ii 1931
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
BytheWay
By David Schwartz
The telegraph companies have very nobly come to the aid of the Jew who wishes to send a New Year greeting to his friend. Today, all the arduous labor of comiiosing one of these messages of greeting may be avoided by simply asking the wire coni|>any to send message No. 8, which ixissibly reads: "May you be inscribed for a very happy new year and may your children become champion ball players." Ot maybe you ask for No. 10 and yet get a message which reads: 'May the new year bring you prosperity, popularity, punch and pep, but not por¬ ous plasters."
Which is all very good. But these messages, very appropriate for your in¬ timate circle, can scarcely fill the bill, if you want to send a New Year greeting to Home great celebrities. You can't be quite so intimate with them, you've got to have something, don't you know, more dignified.
To supply that need, we have formu¬ lated a number of messages suitable to dispatch to these celebrities; ' To Dr. Chaim Weizmann, London, England. i i
A happy New Year and a fast Yom Kippur. Cheer up I Have you thought of columning? Look at Cal Coolidge.
To Dr: Nahum Sokolow,
President, World Zionist Organization,
London.
A happy New Year and a fast Yom Kippur. You arc credited with being not only a great Jewish statesman but a ' great humorist. Could you arrange to tell a real corking one so (hat the Arab demagogues could split their kishkes?
A NEW YEAR'S GREETING
The .Union of American Hebrew Con¬ gregations wishes its constituents scat¬ tered throughout the United States and Canada a year pf contentment and hap¬ piness.
For the House of Isciel the Union prays for a year of united and success¬ ful effort in behalf of the realization of our sacred mission.
For the world at large Israel prays for a speedy restoration of economic sta¬ bility and international good-will.'
May the world's longing for universal peace find a full measure of realization in the year before us.
¦—Ludwig Vogclstein.
Precarious Position of Mexican Jewry May Lead to Pogroms; Targets of Dis¬ crimination Because of Business Success
Local B'nai BVith Will Meet
Monday Evening at East
Broad St. Temple
Most Interesting Musical Program —Refreshments and Smokes—For Members Only
To Adolpf Hitler, "
Fascist and Anti-Semite Leader,
Berlin, Germany.
Yeah? Thanks I Same to you and many of them. If you decide to jump, the fifttientli floor is better than the tenth.
To DrJ Albert Einstein, Berlin, Germany.
A happy, New Year and a relatively fast Yom Kippur. Could you as the world's greatest authority on time do something about this overtime and time and a half business? Remember ine to the relatives.
Bernard Postal,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
New York. .
Happy New Year. More than a year ago you got a postal—not fromthr mails. Females. Hope you get aiiT" this year. There Is nothing spondence.
To Herbert Hoover, The White, House, Washington, D. C.
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According to Robert L. Mellman, vice- president and general chairman of the B'nai B'rith program committee, all ar¬ rangements have been completed for a most interesting. meeting, Monday eve¬ ning, September 14th, when Zion Lodge will open its fall season. The meeting will be; open to B'nai B'rith members only, and on the evening's program there will be reports of the delegates to the last District No, 2 Convention held at West Baden, Ind. The musical program will consist of Jewish Folk Songs and Classical numbers to be presented by the following well known local artists: Sara Parish, violinist; Sylvia Phillipson, pian- ; and Mina Volk, vocalist. Refresh¬ ments and smokes will also be on the eve¬ ning's menu of entertainment.
A discussion of JFall activities will also take place ih which every member of Zion Lodge will be asked to participate, as a most comprehensive program in the history of Zioit - Lodge is now being planned.
..Every niember is again being notified at this time that the new meeting place, beginning Monday evening, the Ea:il Broad Streel. Temple, where, according lo the officers^, of the Order, the best facilities, for the Lodge's meeting are to be had. Remember—'Next Monday ev uinfi. at 3 o'clock at the East Broad Street Temple, l-Hoi East Broad Street.
The possibility that a pc^rom may be the climax of the sorely aggravated Jewish situation in Mexico is suggested by Miss Anita Brenner, American cor¬ respondent, writing in the current issue of the Nation. In a di.'spatch sent from Mexico City, Miss Brenner declares that the twenty thousand Jews who have settled in Mexico since 1924, upon the invitation of General Plutarco Ellas Calles, then president-elect, following the passage of the American immigra¬ tion laws, are now the targets of severe discrimination and active and open agi¬ tation due to jealousy over their busi¬ ness success. Incited by foreign rivals, German, I-'rcnch and Spanish,, irritated by the success of the Jewish immigrants, virulent Mexican anti-Jewish; Leagues have been organized whose function it is to instigate a boycott against the Jews, declares Miss Brenner.
President Ortiz Rubio himself has been drawn into this agitation and was present at an outstanding anti-Jewish meeting where he was asked "to sink the national flag through tbe heart of Israel."
PROMINENT JEWISH
FIGURE PASSES
AT 67
To Morris Waldman and Bernard G.
Richards, Secretaries, respectively, Ainerican Jevyish, Committee and Amer..
can Jewish Congress.
A happy New Year arid a fast Yom Kippur. Hope business willbe slow in your line. No anti-Semitic speeches, laws, discriminations to protest against. Not altogether stop, you understand. A little discrimination is as good as pinochle to get excited about,
To Al Jolson,
New York and Hollywood.
Happy New Year, sonny boy. You sure put it over in "Mammy" arein.
To Eddie Cantor, New York,
A whoopee New Year and a fast Yom Kippur. Bye-bye, see you in the moving pictures.
To Lieutenant Isidore Bachman,
With the Nautilus—Somewhere around
the Pole.
A happy New Year, but you better not fa.n Yom Kippnr. You might fast about a minute as the days are pretty long around the pole. Six months or soinc- thing like that.
By the way, a friend of mine.r-a koshe, butcher, but he's a regular fellow, Isidore —asks me to write you to say, a. good word for him if there is any opening in his line at the pole. He thought maybe a Jewish butcher with a sideline of Es¬ kimo pies might go good. Sure, he's a Pole,
To Congressman Sol Bloom,
Chairman, Washington Bicentennial
Committee,. Washington, D. C.
A chorry happy New Year. You sure are making the old cherry tree bloom Sol.
To Benjamin Winter,
President, Haym Salomon Monument
Committee, New York.
A monumentally successful New Year to you, Mr. Winter.
To Lewis Brown, MacMillan's, New York,
You've written a history of the Jews and now a history of the church. I have some good material on the Litvaks if you care to write a book. Happy New Year, Lew.
To Leon Trotzky, Somewhere in Turkey.
Happy New Year, Lelbel. Hope yon and Joe Stalin get together. After all, hoth of you boys are well read and have much in common. Could you send us a little turkey from Constantinople for ¦ Thanksgiving? Please rush her.
To Hey wood Broun, World Telegram.
It seems to me that yours and Britt's exnose ousiht to help the job hunting children of Mose Shanil' Toval' (Continued on page 4)
Elected Head of Mid-Western
Debating League of Jewish
Community Centers
At a meeting held at the Bureau of, Jewish Education Monday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio, Miss Rose Sugarman, director of the H?rmiiie Schonthaj Cen¬ ter of this city, was elected president of the Mid-Western Debating League of Jewish Community Centers. Mrs, Gary Cohn of Oniaha was elected first vice- president; Mr. Benjamin Schwartz of Cincinnati, second vice-president; and Mr. Lazer Grossman of St. Louis, secrer tary and treasurer. Miss Anita Gutman, recent graduate of -the School of Jour¬ nalism, Ohio State Univer. of sinister designs on the future welfare of the nation. The government was petitioned: (1) to expel ill the Jews; (2) to cancel all Mexican citizen¬ ships extended to Jews; (3) to force thcin alt to become farmers; (4) to can¬ cel Jewish peddlers' licenses and expel Jews from the markets; (5) to restrict Jewish immigration.
"Political sponsorship of the anti- Deputy Angel (angel) Ladron UthicE) de Guevara, exrgeneral, representative from the-Federal District in the Na¬ tional Chamber of Deputies, prominent
... tlie National Revolutionary Party and said to be 'close to Calles'. Proniptly the manifestos, pamphlets, and threats multiplied; a violently anti-Jewish sheet •called La Vos del Comtf^cio was dis¬ tributed, along with the other literature, from the offices of the Federal District Deputation in the National Revolution ary Party Headquarters. And letters on National Revolutionary Party station cry,. signed Ladron de Guevara, asking how much the Jews would pay to stop the campaign, were received by several local Jews with presumably likely bank accounts. Tbe letters^ were not an¬ swered. ' ^'
"Then immigration authorities at Vera Cruz began to get nasty to Jews; Jewish peddlers' licenses were cancelled, and all Jews, Mexican citizenship not¬ withstanding, were expelled from the big dry goods and clothing market La Lagunilla, under rulings stated to be for the purpose of clearing the markets for home-coming Mexicans expelled from the United States, and of enforc¬ ing market regulations which provided that no merchant with more than three hundred pesos (under $loO) worth of goods be .alllowed to deal there. All Jews were said to have violated this reg¬ ulation. No Mexican or non-Jewish foreign violators were discovered.
To celebrate the exodus, a mass meet¬ ing was held by the anti-Jewish Lifjas, anti-Jewish placards decorated the locale, anti-foreign and anti-Jewish speeche^' were made. Th& president, who at¬ tended, was oratorically asked to 'sink the national flag through the heart of Israel'. Deputy Ladron de Gueyara re¬ ceived a gold medal from one of tbese Lujas, 'for his patriotic work in initiat¬ ing the nationalistic campaign'. ' The. medal was pinned on him by amiable President Ortiz Rubio himself, vvho ap¬ parently was present under the impres¬ sion that the meeting was 'pro-Na¬ tional Commerce', and who doubtless didn't see or hear anything naughty, be¬ cause, in answer to an inquiry from this correspondent, he telegraphed that there was no anti-foreign campaign in Mex¬ ico. ^ ¦
"Interviewed," continues Miss Bren¬ ner, "the talkative Deputy stated to this correspondent and to a representative of thii Nev;r York Evening Post, that his campaign was directed 'against all the children of Israel*. Asked whether he thought they were all bad, he answered, either tactless or because he doesn't know a Jew. when he sees one, that he thought they mostly Were. Asked what precisely he expected to do to-them, he, said, 'Send them all out of the country. I've already had the pleasure of personally expelling them from' the markets'. Asked how he was going to accomplish his ob- ject, -he said the president would sign decrees of expulsion for them all. Asked what he wdiild do if the president did not, he said, 'I'll apply direct action; after all, I'm a Deputy and can't be thrown in jail'. Asked who his allies in this campaign were, he said, 'the Na¬ tional government, the Federal District Government, and the National Revolu¬ tionary Party.' He also named several large department stores. Asked how long It would take to expel the Jews, he said, 'Within sixty days, Mexico will be clear of them.'
Parade the Climax "His activity, stretching over a period of several months, reached a climax June.l with tbe organization of a mon¬ ster parade, int^;;ided to show the gov¬ ernment liow' much Mexicans hate Jews. The Jewish zone prepared itself for a pogrom. Anonymous letters threaten¬ ing forcible expulsion and 'suppression' were received by some; and the memory of blackmail attempted by an industrious ex-general named Viguri V, upon others, plus multiplied and more violent pla¬ cards, megaphone men offering 'a nickel for every blow at a Jew', and a new and very wild issue of La Voa del Comcrcio headlined 'Jew—On your Way', por¬ tended a near and dreadful fate td the excited immigrants, many of whom have experienced persecution on the Euro¬ pean plan.
"The president was askeaiiitings and museum pieces which up to now has been stored away because display space was lacking.
Hence the National Committee on Union Museum, of which Mrs. J. Wal¬ ter iTreiberg of Cincinnati is Chairman, is urging every State Federation and every local Sistei-hood in the organization to make plans for this project during the summer, to emphasize the campaign during the coming Sisterhood season, to reserve the month of October to intro¬ duce this subject to its members a"nd to devote the program of that month in its interest.
Mrs. Freiberg Voices Appeal In a letter to Sisterhood Presidents, Mrs. Freiberg write:
"Have you ever come into a inuseum .and admired a beautiful painting and ^ secretly envied the artist? Unfortunately not all of us are blessed with this creative ability. Everyone of-us, hovyever^'has ,it within her power to btlp create a fitting place to display the invaluable collection of Jewish Art Objects of all kinds and,, types which form the Union Museum.
"The efforts of the N. F. T. S. to convert th^ former H. U. C. Library into a museum are unique, both in purposf^ and approach. Ordinarily a campaign is conducted to secure museum pieces. In this case, quite the opposite is true. We are already in possession of a collection of, rare interest. It is second to none. It is our object to create a suitable house, tc display these marvelous works. From the viewpoint of artistic appreciation-:- cultural interest—and education—^the completion of such a museum willcon- jtribnte in tremendous measure, to the Iculturallifc of America, and particularly to the Jewish cultural life.
"The Metropolitan Museupi of Art in New York City is conceded the most out¬ standing museum of its kind in this country. Without the slightest exagge¬ ration the same will be said of the Union Museum in Cincinnati when its excellent collection will have been properly dis* played." .
The Union Museum was established in 1913 by the National'Federal ion of Tem¬ ple Sisterhoods. Begun by gifts from individuals, it has been increased grad¬ ually by purchase. In 1921 considerable material of historic and artistic value was added.
Collection Valuable Among the interesting, collections com¬ prising the Museum is the collection of coins and medals of the well-known nu¬ mismatist, Joseph Hamburger, of Frank- fort-on-the-Main, and the Israel Solo¬ mon's Collection of prints. ,
nl 1920 Dr. Koko acquired the famous Collection of S. Kirschstein and Heinrich Frauberger which he purchased iiiBcrlini The great value of this Collection is due not alone to the uniqueness of a large number of objects, but rather to" the fae* that the Collection itself is unique; it is truly a museum of Jewish iiiitii|uities and art. It represents the en¬ tire cultural development of the Jews from about the Ifith century to the pres¬ ent day almost without a gap. It also has a considerable number of objects dat¬ ing from the early Middle Ages.
It contains not fewer than G,174 articles of artistic and historic value including Jewish ceremonial objects of various countries and periods, Torah ornaments in silver and gold, curtains of the Ark, wimpeln (about 700 in number) and other similar objects. This Collection more than any other has won for the Union Museum recognition as the fore¬ most Museum of Jewish Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects and Historical Momi- nients in the world. j
The Museum also provides opportunity for intensive study of the history of the Megillah (of which there are more than 140), the Ketulnb and the Menorah.
There are ' Oiaqukkah and Sabbath lamps in every form and variation, nearly 100 spice boxes in artistic and interesting filagree work, illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, as well as an extensive and valuable collection of documents.au- toffraphs and broadsides.
There is an almost complete assemblage of the materials.telling of the activities and accomplishments of the Jews as artists and musicians, including speci¬ mens of the work of practically all Jew¬ ish graphic artists, No less complete is the collection of portraits of Jewish ce¬ lebrities, miniatures and oil panitings. (Continued on page 4)